Art for Hangman 🎨

Clues for every answer

A one-line clue for every answer, easy to hard. They're the same clues the game's 💡 Hint shows, so you can read them out when you run your own game.

Painting

Visual art of applying pigment, colour or another medium to a solid surface, most commonly with a brush.

Drawing

Visual art that uses a tool such as a pencil, crayon or pen to make marks on paper or another flat surface.

Sculpture

Three-dimensional visual art made by carving, modelling, welding or casting materials like stone, metal and wood.

Photo

Picture made by light falling on a light-sensitive surface, usually film or an electronic image sensor.

Dance

Art form made of sequences of body movements, typically performed with musical accompaniment.

Theatre

Performing art in which live performers, usually actors, present a real or imagined event to a live audience.

Cinema

The art and industry of making films, and also a building where people go to watch them.

Music

Arranging sound into some mix of melody, harmony and rhythm; generally agreed to be found in every human society.

Novel

Long work of fiction that tells a story, usually written in prose and published as a book.

Poem

Piece of literary art using the often rhythmic qualities of language, often with devices like rhyme.

Fresco

Wall painting done on wet lime plaster, so the painting becomes part of the wall; closely linked with Italian Renaissance art.

Portrait

Painting, photograph, sculpture or other artwork of a person, in which the face is always the main feature.

Colour

What we see when light activates the different cone cells in our eyes; it has hue and lightness.

Brush

Tool for applying paint or ink, usually made by clamping bristles to a handle with a ferrule.

Canvas

Tough plain-woven fabric, also used for sails and tents, that artists typically stretch over a wooden frame.

Sketch

Quickly made freehand drawing that is not usually intended to be a finished work.

Mural

Any artwork painted or applied directly onto a wall, ceiling or other permanent surface.

Statue

Free-standing sculpture of a full-length person or animal, carved or cast in stone, metal or wood.

Gallery

Room or building where visual art is displayed; the word once meant a long, narrow covered passage.

Easel

Upright stand that painters traditionally use to hold a picture while they work on it, normally standing up.

Watercolour

Painting method, also called aquarelle, known for transparency, using pigments suspended in a liquid.

Engraving

Cutting grooves into a hard, usually flat surface with a tool called a burin to make a design.

Mosaic

Picture or pattern made of small pieces of coloured stone, glass or ceramic; very popular in Ancient Rome.

Calligraphy

Fine handwriting as a visual art; its name comes from Ancient Greek words for "beautiful writing".

Ceramics

Art made from materials such as clay, taking forms like pottery, tiles, figurines and tableware.

Lithography

Printing from a smooth stone or metal plate, first based on oil and water not mixing; invented in 1796.

Pastel

Art medium of powdered pigment and a binder, made in forms such as sticks; especially popular in French art.

Stained Glass

Material coloured with metallic salts as it is made, traditionally held in lead strips as window pictures.

Tapestry

Textile art traditionally woven by hand on a loom to make pictures; most old ones were made to hang on walls.

Embroidery

Art of decorating fabric by using a needle to stitch thread or yarn, with stitches such as cross stitch.

Collage

Art assembled from pieces that may include paper, clippings and photos; its name is French for "to glue".

Charcoal

Dry art medium, such as sticks of wood burned in a kiln, whose lines can easily be blended and erased.

Animation

Filmmaking technique in which pictures are played in sequence to create the illusion of moving images.

Typography

Art of arranging printed letters, choosing their style, size and spacing, so that written words are easy to read.

Etching

Using strong acid to cut a design into the bare parts of a metal plate coated with an acid-resistant wax.

Silhouette

Image of a person or object shown as a solid shape of one colour, usually black, matching its outline.

Illustration

Decoration or visual explanation of a text or idea, used in books, magazines, posters, games and films.

Perspective

Way of showing a 3D scene on a flat surface, with things looking smaller the further away they are.

Gouache

Opaque water-based paint, usually bound with gum arabic, used most by commercial artists for posters and comics.

Printmaking

Art of transferring ink from a metal plate, stone or wood block onto paper; nearly every method can make many identical versions.

Impressionism

19th-century movement begun in Paris, with visible brush strokes and changing light; Monet was one of its painters.

Surrealism

Post-World War I movement letting the unconscious mind express itself, often in dreamlike scenes; Dalí was in it.

Renaissance

European cultural movement that revived the art and ideas of the ancient world; first centred in Florence.

Baroque

Style from the early 1600s to the 1750s that used contrast, movement, rich detail and grandeur to create awe.

Romanticism

Late 18th-century European movement prizing imagination, feeling and nature; the painter Caspar David Friedrich was part of it.

Cubism

Early 20th-century Paris movement, begun by Picasso and Braque, showing subjects from several viewpoints at once.

Expressionism

Early 20th-century Northern European movement that distorted the world to show emotion; Kandinsky was part of it.

Naturalism

Showing things in art with as little distortion as possible; it grew with linear perspective in the Renaissance.

Symbolism

Using an object in art to hint at a deeper idea, as when a rose stands for beauty or a lion for strength.

Classicism

Admiring the art of ancient Greece and Rome, valuing form, simplicity, proportion and restrained emotion.

Dadaism

Movement begun in Zürich during World War I that rejected accepted ideas about art; Marcel Duchamp was a key figure.

Futurism

Early 20th-century Italian movement that celebrated speed, technology, youth and machines like the car and aeroplane.

Realism

1840s French movement, first championed by Gustave Courbet, showing everyday people truthfully, even life's unpleasant side.

Modernism

Arts movement, mainly of the early 20th century, that rejected tradition and prized experimentation and abstraction.

Bauhaus

German art school, open 1919 to 1933 and founded by Walter Gropius, that joined crafts and fine arts.

Chiaroscuro

Use of strong contrasts between light and dark in a picture; its Italian name literally means "light-dark".

Pointillism

Painting with small, distinct dots of colour that form an image, a technique developed by Seurat and Signac.

Fauvism

French style from the early 1900s of wild brushwork and bold colour; its painters, led by Matisse and Derain, were 'the wild beasts'.

Mannerism

Art style from late Renaissance Italy, around 1520, often with artificial, unnaturally elegant compositions.

Neoclassicism

European art movement from about 1760, inspired by ancient Greece and Rome and reacting against the Rococo style.